In a message dated 10/13/02 9:09:19 AM Central Daylight Time, Freorden@aol.com writes: > There is a Mary J. McDaniel who homesteaded land in Van Buren County that > was > issued in 1885 but I don't knwo if she is my Mary Jane? > I don't know whose homestead that was, but there IS another Mary Jane McDaniel in Van Buren Co. at that time--my gr gr grandmother. She was Mary Jane McCamey Kidd McDaniel Linn. She became a widow first of James Kidd in 1862 and then of William H. McDaniel between about 1875-1880. I'm not sure when she married her 3rd husband, Asa Linn, or when he died (just a few years after marriage). I do know that she and her McDaniel husband "laid a homestead at Choctaw", according to her obit dated August 1913, Van Buren County Democrat. Just thought I'd let you know this so that you'd know that for a time, there WAS another Mary Jane McDaniel in the county. Happy hunting, Tracey Barrett Baldwin researching in VBC: ALTSMAN, CARGILE, WILLIAMS